Strange Yorkshire saying is this one. I have thought about it, or pondered it, a great deal. Seems to me that it is like this:
Well, you know what thought did don’t you?
No.
Followed a mud-cart and thought it was a wedding!
If we see “thought” and “do” representing the ego, psyche or shadow then it follows that “thought” governs us in “doing” and takes us away from pondering and spirit.
If “ponder” and “be” represent the soul connection to God, then it follows that “ponder” governs us in “being” and takes us to God and to shining light on our ego, to heal it and make it whole – holy – with us.
So, our way in life depends a great deal on “thinking” about what to do next, what to pursue, what to achieve and we follow this mud-cart thinking that it is the way and the life, the way to success, fulfilment and great happiness.
And we struggle, fight, strive towards, endeavour to achieve great things. Sometimes we do; sometimes we don’t and we stress in either case for more of the first, or to overcome the latter. So we keep thinking that this way of thought and doing is a huge wedding and everything to live for. But it keeps running on and on and on and on and we keep running to catch up or even run to stand still, as we often say. It is never quite within total completion this cart, and it looks beautiful – like a wedding – from a distance. It is an illusion though; because we get older and we decay anyway. We walk the same path.
Sometimes, our pondering comes through from our soul and says to us “Hey, stop doing and thinking for a while, just be still and listen, you might even learn something!”.
So pondering emerges; requires quiet and stillness internally; requires listening time to the soul. We begin to awaken to the non-conditionality of Truth, Love and Being. That, it really doesn’t matter what we do for the rest of our lives. That it matters who we truly are and what we must BE. No doing, no pushing, no thinking, no striving, just being.
Anyway, so that’s what thought did!
(© 2010 Eileen Baker)
